BOSTON (AP) — Public health officials in Boston say lab testing has confirmed the presence of norovirus at a Chipotle restaurant in Brighton, near the Boston College campus where more than 120 students were stricken by the gastrointestinal bug.
The Boston Public Health Commission issued the statement Wednesday afternoon following one by the university's director of health services stating they've identified more than 120 students with symptoms consistent with norovirus.
When I was a teen, this phrase came into vogue: "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." You saw it on car bumper stickers everywhere, and many mornings sitting in assembly, our school headmaster would address us about kindness using this phrase. My high school was secular, and I remember family discussions — lightly theological — around our dinner table about the slogan. Kindness and beauty are not in fact random or senseless, my parents said. They're purposeful and ordered — signposts of a present and intentional God. Whether we realize it or not, they said, all kindness and beauty stem from — and belong to — God. We practice them no randomly but as a participants in his kingdom. By him and through him.
